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<p>The Government is committed to supporting all victims of domestic abuse and continues
to engage with victims, survivors and the sector on this issue.</p><p>On 8 March 2018
the Government published the consultation, Transforming the Response to Domestic Abuse,
setting out our proposed approach to tackling domestic abuse. The consultation received
over 3200 responses from a range of sources including, victims and survivors, support
organisations and research experts. The knowledge and expertise extracted from the
consultation have informed the measures included in the draft Domestic Abuse Bill
and package of non-legislative initiatives.</p><p>On 15 May 2019, I, together with
the Minister for Immigration (Caroline Nokes), the Minister of State for Equalities
(Baroness Williams of Trafford) and the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at
the Ministry of Justice (Edward Argar) co-hosted a Round Table on migrant women affected
by domestic abuse. Representatives from the sector were invited to discuss the issues
facing migrant women affected by domestic abuse and the opportunities to tackle these
issues.</p><p>The Home Secretary and I are committed to continue this engagement with
domestic abuse survivors and representatives from the sector, to ensure the Bill and
supporting programme of work is effective and achieves our aim to transform the Government’s
response to domestic abuse.</p>

<p>The Equality Act 2010 contains strong, enforceable protections for disabled people
who experience discrimination, including a failure by employers or service providers
to make reasonable adjustments to enable disabled people to access work and services
like everybody else.</p><p> </p><p>In 2018 the Government committed to the commencement
of section 36 of the Equality Act, which will enable disabled tenants to require that
landlords and building owners to make reasonable adjustments to the common parts of
dwellings, such as entry points, landings and stairs. Work to determine the cost of
implementation is proceeding and an announcement will be made in due course.</p><p>
</p><p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), which enforces the Equality
Act, recently delivered a Legal Support Project to increase access to justice for
people experiencing disability discrimination. It offered groups £189,000 for legal
assistance across 94 cases in areas including employment.</p><p> </p><p>The EHRC has
increased its capacity to advise on discrimination cases in its new strategic plan,
and has supported several court cases which resulted in strengthened rights for disabled
people, including those wishing to make reasonable adjustments to their homes and
disabled children who may demonstrate a tendency to physical abuse as a result of
their disability, whose schools must now make reasonable adjustments in such cases.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral
statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column
468, whether places of faith other than places of worship will qualify for funding
for the Ramadan Package.

<p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties
being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced
on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest
we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops
have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced
a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution
of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term
project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside
the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what proportion of the security
funding for places of worship has been allocated to protect (a) Mosques and (b) other
Muslim places of faith since 2016.

<p>Over its first three years, the Places of Worship protective security scheme has
approved grants worth approximately £1.5m to 134 places of worship. During that time,
Ministers have approved 49 grants to mosques worth £638,906.34.</p><p>Following the
Finsbury Park terror attack in June 2017, we also announced a £1m fund to protect
vulnerable faith institutions. Under this scheme, we approved funding to 38 faith
institutions including 19 mosques and one Muslim community centre. These grants were
worth over £260,000.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral
statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report, column
468, whether places of worship will be required to demonstrate proof of a previous
attack to qualify for the Ramadan Package.

<p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties
being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced
on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest
we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops
have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced
a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution
of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term
project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside
the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to his oral
statement of 7 May 2019 on Places of Worship: Security Funding, Official Report,column
468, how much funding his Department has allocated to date from the Ramadan Package.

<p>Following the attacks in New Zealand, we recognised the increased security anxieties
being felt by mosques as we approach Ramadan. A security training scheme commenced
on the 5 May. We originally committed to 12 workshops but following significant interest
we have agreed to fund an additional 10 workshops during Ramadan.</p><p>These workshops
have been open to faith leaders and have not been restricted to those who have experienced
a previous hate crime. We have also made available funds to pay for the distribution
of written advice to mosques, community centres and madrassahs. This is a short-term
project for which we have awarded grant funding of £74,725 that will sit alongside
the wider £5m fund that has been announced for security training for all faiths.</p>

<p>Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) are an independent source of advice
for trafficked children and somebody who can speak up on their behalf.</p><p>The Government
has successfully rolled out ICTAs to one third of all local authorities in England
and Wales, in line with the commitment made in July last year. Where the service is
available, all children that are potential victims of trafficking are eligible for
support.</p><p>The Independent Review of the Modern Slavery Act led by Frank Field,
Baroness Butler-Sloss and Maria Miller has recently considered Section 48 of the Modern
Slavery Act 2015, which makes provisions for ICTAs. The Review’s final report can
be found <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-review-of-the-modern-slavery-act-final-report</a></p><p>The
Government is currently carefully considering the recommendations of the review on
the improvements we can make to the ICTA service, and we remain committed to rolling
ICTAs out nationally.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms are in place
to enable (a) communities and (b) victims to have a greater input into policies and
approaches on tackling antisocial behaviour.

<p>The Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 introduced two measures
that give communities and victims an input into policies and approaches on tackling
anti-social behaviour. They are the Community Trigger and the Community Remedy.</p><p>The
Community Trigger, also known as the anti-social behaviour case review, gives victims
of persistent anti-social behaviour the ability to demand a formal case review (where
a locally defined threshold is met), in order to determine whether there is further
action which can be taken. Any individual, community or business can make an application
for a case review, and the relevant bodies must carry out a case review if the threshold
is met.</p><p>The Community Remedy gives victims of low-level crime and anti-social
behaviour a say in the punishment of perpetrators who receive an out of court punishment.</p>

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in which year
the responsible local authority last carried out emergency evacuation tests at each
(a) Premier League and (b) Championship football stadium.

<p>My Department does not hold such information. While the Department for Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport is responsible for the sports grounds safety legislation,
responsibility for the safety of spectators lies at all times with the ground management
of individual sports grounds. Certifying and regulating those sports grounds is primarily
a matter for individual local authorities.</p><p> </p><p>In accordance with recommendations
in the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds, published by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority,
ground management should prepare contingency plans for the evacuation of all people
in the event of an emergency from all areas of the ground to a place of safety.</p>